Sonomagy

Overview

Sonomagy is a resource pack that aims to overhaul the sound design for Thaumcraft 4, 5 and 6. Not in terms of remaking the sounds entirely anew, but instead by recreating the originals with higher fidelity, resulting in an enhanced audiological^© experience.

Thaumcraft has always had well selected sound effects, but the actual quality of the audio tends to be rather poor, with low sample rates, garbling and compression artifacts. This was done to reduce filesizes, but this has the unfortunate side-effect of making the sounds feel somewhat unimpressive or strangely muffled.

However, by going through the agonisingly tedious process of sound effect hunting on suspect websites, I’ve found the original versions of these sound effects, and from there I’ve located and mixed higher-quality versions of them. No longer will stunning arcane events sound like they’re coming down a telephone line, now the magic will sound truly magical!

Demo

While I can sit here and type away all day trying to explain this resource pack, showing almost always outdoes telling. As such, please refer to the video below, which showcases a few select examples of the original sounds followed by my improvements:

Reviews

But wait, you can’t trust any old link on some website where you can download all manner of Minecraft-modding-related monstrosities! Nor can you trust the video I’ve just made! Or the fact that downloads are usually checked thoroughly by moderators on the site! Or… something else like that! I mean, unless this pack has made its way onto ‘dodgymcdownloads.ru’ or something, then in which case: it’s your own fault if you get a virus.

Still, you’ll need to see what others have said about the pack first, so you can blindly put your faith in the opinions of people you’ve never met in person, won’t you? Well, the rave reviews are in, featuring some of your favourite modders! And some of your unfavourite modders whom you’ve probably never even heard of before:

“I didn't know I wanted this till u showed me” – EpicSquid, Calamari Scented Mystic Mods Dev.

“:0 it's really good, it's really good to see others people than codder [sic] working on mods , it's really imserive [sic] and more clean [sic], i really like it” – Wind_Blade, Thaumcraft Addon Dev.

“I love it” – Voxel_Friend, Rustic Thaumaturgy Dev and volumetric associate to no-one in particular.

"I always appreciate listening to some good jar sounds while jumping all over them" – TheCodex6824, Thaumic Augmentation Dev, Pixel Art Connoisseur and Telepathic Idea Thief.

"you never really notice the compression until you hear it clean and now i can't go back" – Kat, aka 5B, who is most certainly not a type of pencil.

"sonomagy seems cool" – CursedFlames, whose invigorating prose can inspire downtrodden armies to fight, whose literary genius can bring bedridden victims of illness back to full health, and whose incredible way with the English language can help me get more people to download Sonomagy.

"I didn't notice any significant difference, that's a no from me." – LordFokas, casting his vote on whether to add Sonomagy to a modpack. He is not a real Lord, however, and thus he was not able to lobby the modpack creators into making sure it was not added.

“They sound great! […] but […] Not everyone may want to the extra size & memory they will use. Thanks for the effort though” – Azanor, Thaumcraft Creator. And they aren’t that large…

Final Notes

Now, my prior mention of ‘agonisingly tedious’ when it comes to creating sounds for this pack is no exaggeration. Finding where Azanor gets his sounds from is about 80% of the process when it comes to remixing audio, since I need the original source to get names, lengths and other metadata to find a higher quality version of the same sound. Time, sanity and people’s lives may be saved if anyone happens to know where I can find more of the original sounds. 

Sounds I'm still looking for:

• Eldritch Crab (crabtalk1-3.ogg, crabdeath.ogg, crabclaw.ogg)
• Infusion Fail (craftfail.ogg)
• Crystal Rattle (crystal.ogg)
• Essentia Centrifuge Sounds (pump1-3.ogg)
• Taint Spread (roots1-3.ogg)
• Essentia Valve Turn (squeek1-2.ogg)
• Crimson Cultist (chant1-3.ogg)
• Coins (coins.ogg)
• Flux Rift/Outer Lands Portal (evilportal.ogg)
• Ice Spell/Arcane Grappler (ice1-3.ogg)
• Runic Shield (runicShieldCharge.ogg, runicShieldEffect.ogg)
• Lightning Spell (shock1-2.ogg)
• Urn Shatter (urnbreak.ogg)
• Alembic Knock for TC 4/5 (alembicknock.ogg)
• Golem Clack (clack1-3.ogg)
• Infusion Altar Ambience (infuser.ogg)
• Fire Spell (fireloop.ogg)
• Essentia Tube Creak (creak1-2.ogg)
• Pech (pech_charge1-2.ogg, pech_death.ogg, pech_hit1-2.ogg, pech_idle1-3.ogg, pech_trade.ogg)

I already know a fair bit about where Azanor gets sound effects from, which includes sites like sounddogs.com and soundjay.com, but I'm still interested in tidying up as much of the audio as I can. If you have some time to spare and are even reading this right now (I mean, you've probably just missed this section entirely upon being enraptured by the shiny download button), feel free to have a look over those sites and any others you can find.

If you happen across a sound Azanor has used, do contact me, and I will tell you that, no, I’ve already found that one and it didn’t come from some game I’ve never heard of, that’s just a stock sound effect that every sound designer and their pet gibbon uses, with Azanor being one of those people. A sound designer that is, not a pet gibbon. I think.

Aside from that, enjoy the pack!

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